In honor of Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King...
Preamble…
Just prior to her death in 2006, Coretta Scott King went to Mexico to a hospital that specialized in alternative medicine. Her family told the media that she was specifically interested in homeopathic treatment. It is no longer surprising when "cultural heroes" seek homeopathic treatment at some point in their lives because there is such a substantial assortment of the most famous people over the past 200 years who used and have advocated for homeopathic medicine.
In fact, there is a significant body of literature that shows that 11 U.S. Presidents and various world leaders, six popes and various leading clergy and spiritual leaders, Nobel Prize Laureates and other leading scientists and physicians, literary greats, sports superstars, musical geniuses, world-class artists, women's rights leaders, philanthropists and corporate leaders, and monarchs from all over the world have used and/or advocated for homeopathy. In fact, there is an entire book that tells and references these stories…called “The Homeopathic Revoluton: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy” … by yours truly.
I HAVE A DREAM…
I have a dream that Hippocrates's wisdom of "First, do no harm" will be operationalized by the inclusion of natural and homeopathic medicines in primary care.
I have a dream that augmenting the body-mind's own immune and defense system will be a primary goal of medical treatment.
I have a dream that local, regional, and national governments will respect personal health automony and will never issue mandates for medical treatment of any kind.
I have a dream that physicians and scientists will realize that humility is a high emotional and intellectual virtue and that “following the science” is not in set in stone because following the science tends to change year-to-year and decade-to-decade. “Science” is a verb and is in dynamic flux.
I have a dream that health care professionals will strive for "integrative health care," that is, the use of various natural therapies and conventional medicines, in efforts to create safer and more effective health care results.
I have a dream that people will understand that no disease is "local" or isolated from the whole person and that all disease is part of a syndrome that can and must be understood in this more complex context.
I have a dream that people will really respect the wisdom of the body-mind and realize that our symptoms are our organism's best effort to respond to stress or infection.
I have a dream that people will become aware of the real problems that result from using conventional drugs that suppress symptoms, thereby disrupting the body's defensive efforts and pushing the disease deeper into the organism.
I have a dream that people will appreciate the multi-factorial nature to most disease processes and that people will no longer be fooled by oversimplified single-causational factors to disease.
I have a dream that a diverse body of scientists and health care professionals will develop guidelines that will help assess "overall quality of life" improvements -- not just symptomatic differences, as a means to determine if treatments really work.
I have a dream that a diverse body of scientists and health care professionals will soon explore the dimensions of and potential for ancient and futuristic concepts of "energy medicine", not only for medical applications but for varied technologies that will help create a healthier, sustainable planet.
I have a dream that biggest critics of natural medicine will apologize for continuing a history of antagonism that should never have started in the first place.
I have a dream that people will recognize that Big Pharma “owns” news agencies and Big Media due to their concentration of ad revenue during the News…and therefore, such media reporting will inevitably be slanted and news that doesn’t fit the Big Pharma narrative will be censored.
I have a dream that people will realize that Big Pharma “owns” many politicians and because of this, politicians will often create laws and regulations that do not serve the people but serve Big Pharma.
I have a dream that state and federal health agencies that regulate Big Pharma will not used as an “audition” for high-paying jobs in Big Pharma companies.
I have a dream that homeopathy and natural medicine's history of success in treating many infectious epidemic diseases will help us reduce antibiotic use and provide a safer tool for treating people with infections.
I have a dream that the homeopathic principle of similars, which has long been utilized in vaccination and allergy treatments, will be appreciated for its power in augmenting immuno-competence.
Let health and freedom ring from the home to the clinic to the hospital.
Let health and freedom ring from the pharmacy to the health food store.
Let health and freedom ring from doctors, from patients, and from insurance companies.
Let health and freedom ring from drug companies, drug regulators, and health policy experts.
Let health and freedom ring from the media and from the internet.
I have a dream today.
Any other dreamers out there?
The Stakes Have Never Been Higher
BIO:
Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, graduated from UC Berkeley School of Public Health (1978) and was interviewed by UC Berkeley’s alumni magazine here. He has written 10 books on homeopathic medicine, two of which contain a Foreword by the Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (who is a MD and a homeopathic doctor). Dana Ullman has served on advisory boards or in teaching capacities of complementary and alternative medicine institutes at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Arizona.
Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, is America's leading spokesperson for homeopathy and is the founder of www.homeopathic.com. This website is an important resource for accessing homeopathic books, medicines, medicine kit, software, and ecourses.
Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, is the author of 10 books, including his bestseller, Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines. His most recent book is, The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy. Dana’s eCourse on Learning to Use a Homeopathic Medicine Kit is a great way to make homeopathy practical in your personal and family life.
Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, has also written chapters on homeopathy for four medical textbooks, including two published by Oxford University Press.
Dana lives, practices, and writes from Berkeley, California. He sees his patients via Zoom.
Your dream is mine.
Your dream is my dream, Dana. I positioned our Veterinary Hospital in Westport, CT to practice integrative medicine many years ago, in the face of corporate consolidation. And as a human Provider, and Existentially trained psychotherapist, I also practice integrative medicine. I am about to run a seminar entitled, "Staying Well in the era of Corporate Medicine and the Health Business." Our Health Care system is incredibly broken, and it does more harm than good in many instances, all in the name of money. It wasn't like that when I was a kid.